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Definition of bastion in English:

bastion

noun

1A projecting part of a fortification built at an angle to the line of a wall, so as to allow defensive fire in several directions.

‘Leonardo lived at a time when the first artillery fortifications were appearing and the Codice Atlantico contains sketches of ingenious fortifications combining bastions, round towers, and truncated cones.’

‘On the Trikuta hill above the main city square, rise the bastions of the 12 th-century fort.’

‘A wall was built of mud brick on a limestone foundation, punctuated by projecting bastions to allow cross-firing against anyone attacking the wall.’

‘The first baron had laid out an extended perimeter of earthen ramparts with angled bastions to let archers sweep the wall between them, and a deep ditch had been dug at the foot of the wall.’

‘The riverside walls are punctuated nevertheless by defensive bastions of which the main one controls an access from the river and numerous underground passages.’

‘The walled cities of medieval Italy were fixed universes, bastions of defense, outlets for commerce, which had been built out of fear.’

‘Vestiges of the city's forum, basilica, temple, ramparts, bastions and oil mills are also well preserved.’

‘Drunk participants are asked to make their way to the bastions on the city walls to assemble for the Carnival which gets underway at 2.00 pm.’

‘Today, parts of the massive, four-sided walls are still visible, together with the remains of its fortified towers, or bastions, at each of the four corners.’

‘A large area was enclosed by a defensive wall with bastions and monumental gates, and the natural sheltered harbour was extended and deepened.’

‘It was the period immediately after the siege that established the existing defence systems of Gibraltar with all its great bastions, casements and massive lines of artillery-proof walls built from clean dressed limestone.’

‘The three successive walls with numerous bastions for artillery and convoluted approaches for better defense testify to a time when wars were common and imminent attack around the corner.’

‘The magnificent Junagarh Fort, the main attraction of the place has a 986-meter long wall with 37 bastions, a moat and two entrances.’

‘The walls had rounded angles with semicircular projecting bastions for artillery with an entrance on the south side.’

‘At close intervals are semi-circular bastions with eyelets for archers to look down and shoot at the enemy.’

‘Now, the slave-built massive concrete bastions have softened and decayed under the influence of time, weather and vegetation.’

‘Fortresses of this era employed cleverly designed bastions and walls to defy storming by enemy troops and survive bombardment by enemy cannon.’

‘The villa's distinctive pentagonal shape framed by arrowhead bastions makes it one of the most memorable monuments of the late Roman Renaissance.’

‘The buildings sit like a sheltering battlement, a running bastion enclosing green space created from the earth mounds of excavated material.’

‘Features common to them all include doubled walls and angular bastions for artillery to dominate the approach.’